Motivational Quotes

God

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about God

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Plotinus

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Connolly, Cyril

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Stowell, Joseph

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Rostand, Jean

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Bunuel, Luis

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Brooks, Thomas

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Burroughs, William S.

11.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

12.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Einstein, Albert

13.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire

14.

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

15.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

Picabia, Francis

16.

IÆm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher

17.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Eckhart, Meister

18.

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

19.

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

20.

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

Peck, William M.

21.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer

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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

23.

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

24.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Simpson, A. B.

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Carter, Angela

26.

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

27.

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

28.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

29.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Macdonald, George

30.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Voltaire

31.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

33.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Redgrave, Lynn

34.

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

Bible

35.

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Updike, John

36.

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

37.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Frost, Robert

38.

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

Pascal, Blaise

40.

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Mairaux, Andre

41.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

42.

When men make gods, there is no God!

O'Neill, Eugene

43.

You are within God. God is within you.

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

47.

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

Maistre, Joseph De

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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Haggai, John

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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher